Eau Resort & Spa
Manalapan, south of the island
The big resort just south of the island: 309 rooms, seven oceanfront acres and a 42,000 square foot spa, owned since 2024 by Larry Ellison.
Last verified August 28, 2026
The Breakers
The island's grand resort: 534 rooms on 140 oceanfront acres, in the Flagler family's hands since the beginning.
Type
Hotels
Area
Midtown, oceanfront
Address
1 South County Road, Palm Beach, FL 33480
Opened
1926 (current building; the original opened in 1896)
Website
Last verified
August 28, 2026
The Breakers is where Palm Beach's resort history starts and, in many ways, still lives. Henry Flagler opened the first hotel on this site in 1896; after two fires, the family built the present Italian Renaissance building, designed by Schultze and Weaver and opened in December 1926. It remains owned and operated by the Flagler System, which makes it one of the rare American grand hotels still in its founding family.
The scale is a category of its own for the island: 534 rooms on 140 acres fronting the Atlantic, with two golf courses, a private beach club and a row of restaurants that function as a social calendar in themselves. The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.
Sources
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